Polite Dissent

Anon, it be that day that be loved above all others: Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Being the good buccaneer that I am, I stole last year’s post, and I be re-posting it (with some additions though matey).

• Talk Like A Pirate Day Official Website
• Download the official Talk Like A Pirate Day Theme mp3 — only 99 ¢ — and it’s from Tom Smith, so you know it’s good! (And for those of you a little low in swag, here are the lyrics)
• Git yer own pirate name, ya’ land lubbers! Pirate Name Generator
• Methinks the Truth be Out There: Pirate and Privateer Legends!
• Some comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) off the top of me head (to be updated as I think of more):
  • Crossbones
  • The Psycho Pirate
  • Occulus from Fantastic Four
  • And in the Fantastic Four’s first encounter with Dr. Doom (FF #5), The Thing ended up becoming Blackbeard.
  • Pirate Club
  • The evil pirates from My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer
  • The Starjammers
  • The hilarious Scurvy Dogs (”The cow says moo…”)
  • Barbarossa and the Lost Corsairs
  • El Cazador
  • Street Angel #2
  • Long John Silver and the Pirates (Charlton comic from the 1950s)
  • Belit (and Conan, for a time) from the Conan comics (older Marvel volumes)
  • The Black Pirate appeared in some of the 1940s issues of Action Comics
  • There was the pirate comic-within-a-comic in Watchmen (Tales of Black Freighter)
  • Buccaneers from the 1950s
  • The similarly named Buccaneer, also from the 1950s
  • The Golden Medallion, a pirate comic book put out by LEGO
  • The Pirates of Dark Water A kids comic put out by Marvel based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
  • Terry and the Pirates. Sure it was a comic strip, but it’s been reprinted in comic book form several times
  • Then of course there’s Colonia (pointed out to me last year by Laura, the “Scourge of the Seattle Seas”)
  • Pirate Corp$
  • Even Mickey Mouse is getting in on the act: Air Pirates Funnies
  • Metrokitty (the “Feline Felon”) reminded me that there was a pirate as a suporting character in the Starman series (and in one of the Talking with David issues).
  • Speaking of Disney, we can’t forget air pirate Don Carnage from Talespin
  • Pirates appeares in at least one Spirit story
  • EC’s Piracy
  • Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates
  • Some pirates appeared (briefly, before being slaughtered) in Grendel: War Child #4